Gibbons Leads Harvard to Comeback Win over No. 16
Massachusetts

from press release

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Senior co-captain
Dean Gibbons scored three goals including the game-winner to lead
the 20th ranked Harvard men's lacrosse to an 11-9 win over No. 16
Massachusetts Tuesday under the lights at Harvard Stadium.

With the win, the Crimson improves to 6-2 overall and snaps a
13-game winless streak against the Minutemen in Cambridge.

Junior Jeff Cohen also scored a hat trick, while Terry White
added two scores and Matt Hull, Daniel Elipp and Ryan Stevens all
found the back of the net for the Crimson.

Hull had three assists on the night, including a feed to Gibbons
with 2:28 left on the clock for the victory.

Massachusetts took an early 2-0 lead in early in the game. Hull
and Cohen put away goals for the Crimson to make it 3-2 at the end
o the first. The Crimson trailed 5-3 at the half.

The Minutemen scored three of the first four tallies in the
third frame increase their lead to 8-4 with five minutes and 39
second left to play in the third session.

Gibbons took a pass from Hull with 5:10 to go and fired it in
the net to spark a four-goal scoring streak for the Crimson.

Stevens' unassisted goal with 1:10 left in the third evened the
score.

Gibbons gave the Crimson its first lead of the night, 9-8, with
8:17 left to play. Ryan Hantverk scored the equalizer for the
Minutemen just over three minutes later.

Andrew Parchman, who started the night off 5-of-5 on faceoffs,
won the next faceoff and the Crimson offense took over. The Crimson
put up six unsuccessful shots but maintained possession of the
ball. Hull picked up a ground ball handed off to Gibbons seconds
later for the go-ahead goal.

UMass won the next faceoff, but Harry Krieger made the stop, one
of 19 on the night.

Harvard cleared the ball and called a timeout. The Crimson put
one more in the net before the end of the game, this time a scored
from Eipp on an open net.

Hull had seven ground balls and a caused turnover for the
Crimson, while Cohen and Eric Slingerland caused two of the Minutes
18 turnovers.

Harvard outshot UMass, 37-35, in the game and won 12 of 23
faceoffs.

The Minutemen held a 47-46 edge in ground balls.

The Crimson travels to Albany for its second straight
non-conference game Saturday. Faceoff is at 2 p.m.